Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by ionised on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:55AM
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This sounds very much like the 'white man's burden' of having a moral obligation to 'civilise savages'.
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by dontlikeitupem on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:41AM
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Isn't it? Should we have allowed the Indians to call on such savage practice as suttee? One of the greater horrors of post colonial sub continent africa is how little education reached the populace and the savage beliefs that perpetuate atrocities even now. Imagine if we had been able to teach them that they didn't need to kill and mutilate albinos for example?
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by boomboomsubban on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:34AM
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The West was still full of savage practices when suttee was outlawed, and the millions killed by colonialism outweigh the lives saved by this "education."
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by dontlikeitupem on Friday October 27, 2017 @12:39PM
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In these countries, as the population trends towards the billions, we will see the ongoing benefits of education.
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by boomboomsubban on Friday October 27, 2017 @04:13PM
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If you're talking that kind of time frame, education did not require colonialism.
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
by timthelion on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:16AM
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Is civilization even good? Civilization seems to be on track to destroy everything and everyone: http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-fly...
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or (especially) take threads in generic directions. Signal/noise gets steadily worse when you do that because people have fewer substantive things to say and get louder about them.
The same argument can be made for the Roman Empire. Empires of the past are looked down on because they are a unified machine of violence, a center of evil we can point to and hate.
Creating civilization is brutal, but the alternative is much scarier. A world of tribes and decentralized violence & oppression toward no end. Just as much pain, but not recorded, all in vain.